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Tecnon OrbiChem: Dec 7, 2023 7:05:25 AM
PET industry participants in Europe and North America are locked in a fight for survival. What can the PET sector do to improve its outlook for 2024?...
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Tecnon OrbiChem: Nov 28, 2023 9:57:21 AM
During a particularly poignant moment in Apple TV's drama series The Morning Show, UBA weatherman Yanko Flores defines El Niño. It is, he laments,...
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Tecnon OrbiChem: Nov 3, 2023 2:55:59 PM
On 31 October 2023, the European Commission communicated the latest details of its anti-dumping investigation into Chinese polyethylene terephthalate...
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Tecnon OrbiChem: Oct 25, 2023 4:37:12 PM
At the risk of perpetuating a troubling 2023 trope, the construction sector is contradictory on a global scale right now. While growing populations...
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Tecnon OrbiChem: Oct 16, 2023 12:25:53 PM
Discussions on low carbon or sustainable feedstocks at European Petrochemical Association gatherings – even ten years ago – were rare. Back then,...
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Tecnon OrbiChem: Oct 10, 2023 4:30:45 PM
Tecnon OrbiChem experts connected (and reconnected) with cohorts of petrochemicals-focused contacts cultivated over 50 years at the end of last...
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Tecnon OrbiChem: Jul 17, 2023 8:13:42 AM
Earlier this year, BASF Chairman Martin Brudermüller warned that Europe was increasingly losing its chemicals sector competitive edge. His comments...
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Tecnon OrbiChem: Jun 26, 2023 3:09:28 PM
Plasticizer market participants and producers within the sector's supply chain – plus raw materials producers – began the year with breath baited....
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Tecnon OrbiChem: Jun 20, 2023 1:08:50 PM
The Asia-focused supplement to our January 2023 blog post Orthoxylene - phthalic anhydride outlook for 2023 & year in review contained interviews...
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Tecnon OrbiChem: Jun 19, 2023 5:46:46 AM
A whitepaper Tecnon OrbiChem published earlier in 2023 outlined the reasons why isocyanates markets had been seasonally quiet a year prior. Logistics...
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Tecnon OrbiChem: Jun 2, 2023 9:12:00 AM
In just a few weeks, Tecnon OrbiChem and partner I•C•I•S co-host their 26th World Chlor-Alkali Conference in Singapore. Our founder Charles Fryer...
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Tecnon OrbiChem: Feb 20, 2023 6:35:08 AM
As we look to the PET sector's high season - Q2 2023 - market participants will be keen to lower the paraxylene cost disparity compared to Asia. It...
